Trump Will Liberate America’s World Leading Energy Producers

Donald Trump can become one of the greatest Presidents in American history, if he can lead adoption of just a few desperately needed changes in federal policies and law. Trump has already pledged to adopt these changes, while Hillary has pledged to oppose them. This is the fourth in a multi-part series on those desperately needed changes, this one focusing on deregulation to liberate America’s energy producers to lead the world in production of oil, natural gas, and coal.

Recent technological breakthroughs in oil and gas drilling, combined with modernization of the decades old technology of “fracking,” have unlocked vast oil and natural gas deposits previously inaccessible in vast American mountain ranges. Consequently, America now has the proven reserves right here at home to be the world’s number 1 producer of oil, number 1 producer of natural gas, and number 1 producer of coal. Stephen Moore and Kathleen Hartnett White write in their new book, Fueling Freedom: Exposing the Mad War on Energy, “We have more oil and natural gas than Saudi Arabia, Iran, Russia, China, and all other OPEC nations combined.”

The authors estimate the value of America’s proven reserves at current prices – beneath federal lands and waters alone – as $50 trillion, which they rightly call, “the greatest storehouse of treasure in history.” That is close to three times what our entire national economy produces in a year! And more than twice our national debt.

Imagine America’s own economy leading the world in production of all three of these crucial energy sources. America would enjoy tidal waves of new, high paying jobs and growth. Plentiful, low cost, reliable energy is the avenue for rebuilding manufacturing, which is inherently energy intensive. Millions high paying, blue collar, American manufacturing would be the prize.

Democrats used to be the party of blue collar working people. But no more. Elitist Democrats are increasingly rallying around the left wing slogan “Leave it in the ground.” The Obama administration, from the president on down, including his former Secretary of State, have embraced precisely this extremist policy with religious fervor.

When Obama spoke to environmentalist radicals in 2008 regarding his plans to address “climate change,” he candidly revealed, “Under my plan, electricity costs will necessarily skyrocket.” Obama’s White House Science Advisor John Holdren elaborated, “We need to de-develop the United States to bring our economic system into line with the realities of ecology and the global resource situation.”

The so-called “Clean Power Plan” proposed by Obama’s EPA is well-designed to do precisely that. A new study from the National Black Chamber of Commerce estimates that energy regulation will cause job losses reaching 7 million for blacks and 12 million for Hispanics, with the poverty rate increasing by more than 23% for blacks and 26% for Hispanics. Blacks and Hispanics would be threatened with a new energy poverty.

EPA’s Plan will ultimately more than double the cost of natural gas and electricity, adding over $1 trillion to family and business energy bills, as Obama promised. That will drain funds that end up destroying millions of jobs in companies and businesses that can no longer compete under the higher costs. Such rules will reduce U.S. economic growth every year, causing $2.3 trillion in losses over the next two decades alone.

De-develop the United States? Does that sound like it is in the interests of working people, the middle class, or the poor, blacks, and Hispanics? Yet, long-time radical, extremist, Professor John Holdren has been drawing a paycheck from the taxpayers as Obama’s White House Science Advisor for years.

No wonder Obama’s economy continues to sputter at subnormal economic growth, only one-third the rate of President Reagan’s record setting economic recovery. Obama’s subpar recovery has already cost the American people $2 to $3 trillion, and American families and working people $17,000 to $25,000 in lost annual income, falling farther and farther behind every year!

Clearly, Obama and Hillary have a very different vision than Trump for the future of America’s working people and families. Trump says, “President Obama’s stated intent is to eliminate oil and natural gas production in America.” Hillary says if she is elected, she will end any oil and gas production on federal lands and waters.

In his “America First” Energy Plan speech, Trump framed the issue as: “It’s a choice between sharing in this great energy wealth, or sharing in the poverty promised by Hillary Clinton…. Just listen to Hillary Clinton’s own words. She has declared war on the American worker…. ‘We are going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of work.’ She wants to shut down the coal mines.” And that will all mean lots of other blue collar manufacturing workers out of work as well.

Trump adds, “President Obama has aggressively blocked the production of oil and natural gas. He has taken a huge percentage of the Alaskan National Petroleum Reserve off the table. Oil and gas production on federal lands is down 10%. 87% of available land on the Outer Continental Shelf has been put off limits…. These actions denied millions of Americans access to the energy wealth sitting under our feet. This is your treasure, and you – the American People – are entitled to share in the riches.”

During Obama’s Presidency, 332 coal mines have been closed in West Virginia alone, eliminating 35% of coal industry employment in a state that now has the highest unemployment rate in the country. According to the Energy Information Administration, over the next 5 to 7 years, a third of America’s coal-fired generation capacity will be eliminated. But China and India are building hundreds of new coal plants, more than replacing what America is tearing down under Obama.

Trump continued, “As bad as President Obama is, Hillary Clinton will be worse. She will escalate the war against American energy…. She declared that, ‘we’ve got to move away from coal and all other fossil fuels,’ locking away trillions in American wealth. In March, Hillary Clinton said, ‘by the time we get through all of my conditions, I do not think there will be many places in America where fracking will continue to take place.’”

Contrary to that, Trump proclaimed that under his energy plan all regulatory obstacles to any form of energy production, including “renewables,” would be removed. But so would all subsidies. He would ask Trans Canada to renew their application for the Keystone Pipeline, and cancel the Paris Climate Agreement. His environmental priorities would be real environmental problems, like clean and safe drinking water. “Political activists with extremist agendas would no longer write the rules.” Instead, he would work with conservationists whose agenda truly is protecting nature, clean air and clean water, not de-developing America.

Thousands of pages of objective, double peer-reviewed science in the Heartland Institute’s Climate Change Reconsidered II, drawing on the work of the best climate scientists in the world, demonstrate that voters have no reason to impoverish America out of fear of “Climate Change”.

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Amber

Why would the Democrats insist on increasing fuel poverty deaths , sell out the poor and middle incomers with regressive taxes on energy and the elimination of one of the best tools in the USA toolkit for preserving one of the highest standards of living in the world ?
Why would they run an election campaign promising to fire coal workers and shut down fossil fuel ? Doesn’t that say more about who bought the party ? Are they worried the Green Party will take just enough so best to through a few green bananas at the crowd just in case .
Isn’t it obvious Asia has a massive labour cost advantage (slave wages )and the USA energy reserves help level the playing field a little bit while reducing pollution due to more stringent North American Standards . Why do the Democrats have a problem with
supporting their citizens and reducing pollution instead of outsourcing American jobs ?
Why do Union leaders support a government party that can’t hide their hostility to unionized workers ? More importantly why haven’t unionized workers resisted the bullying tactics of the scary climate change fraud squad ?

The promoters of the massive fraud should find a nice warm cage while we exit the most recent ice age .

Me

Because unionized workers doesn’t get a secret ballot when they vote on issues their leaders put foreward, at least not here in Canada, and apparently the leaders and our PM wants to keep it that way because Democracy is for politics and not unions err somethang.

Me

I have seen what happens to the new people trying to get into the trade they trained for, I have seen what happens to people that votes against their union leadership and then the leader creates a split to divide and conquer the union with a new one. I have confronted union members one on one with this and they turn and run when it’s one on one, don’t want to answer up to anything.

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Amber

One of the most significant outcomes of the USA election is the public awakening to the utter contempt main street media holds them . Preachy condescending Liberals
pushing for the most part Democrat ideology while shutting out different values and political priorities . Telling the people what to think instead of listening . The Green Party garnering a whopping 1 % of the vote and was supposed to be the champion of what the President claims is the number one threat to the world . Global Warming rebranded Climate Change . Apparently people in the rust belt and over 30 other States disagreed with that as a priority .
The lazy media played along and sold scary climate stories they were spoon fed and in some cases refused to provide any balance to the BS they are spoon fed and have been spewing for years .
When their party lost they were so stunned all they could play was the race card and are still in denial holding out for hopeless recounts or conspiracy theories of Russian espionage and hacking .
The public has now been put back in control so if some clown weather women wants to pitch nonsense the public shifts to more objective information sources. Ones that aren’t the propaganda or fake news tool for a political party .
Universities that are now full on incubators for a one sided left wing agenda are really ripping those kids off but worst of all those like Colorado University have faculty openly saying they will not discuss opposing climate views . Education to Propaganda is a fine line . Colorado crossed it . The LA times crossed it . The Guardian , New York Times …. well what do you expect ?
Peoples actions demonstrated the jig is up . Short those media stocks they are going down .

Amber

If left wing pinko Saunders doesn’t like him he sounds like he has potential .
He looks like a guy with a bit of backbone and won’t be bullied by the Demo rat
whiners who have infiltrated the EPA .
Good luck Mr. Pruitt . …. hire security . When the looney tunes get desperate( and they are ) they go into ugly mode . Taking apart their $Trillion dollar con game is going to get them down right belligerent but who cares ? They did get about 1 % of the vote
after all . In other words the science fiction is settled in the minds of voters by about
99 % . The debate is over in their hot air world .
Drain away Mr. Pruitt the public backs you despite the shrill sound of whiners who just had their piggy bank broken .

Amber

The NASA data manipulators collectively don’t have an IQ over 38 . Bullshit merchants about to be out on their ass . Maybe Britain would like to hire NASA rejects .
Where oh where are Dicaprio and Gore going to get their alarmist propaganda ?
When is the much vaunted IPCC report coming out ? That’s right NEVER .
The jig is up they were played as useful idiots and are no longer required .
Did the IPCC hot pants smut writer ever beat those sexual harassment allegations ? Quality right through the organization .

Amber

Why would virtually no change to Antarctic ice in over 100 years be a surprise at all .
Whether it’s minus – 60 or minus – 58 certainly we know it is fricking cold and it is not about to thaw . Throw a few volcanos open below the surface and a part of it might
but if that is considered caused by climate change the science fiction is bigger than
we know .
The question is how much will the Antarctic grow by over the next 1000 years ?

Amirlach

JayPee

I’m willing to consider your argument, but I’m disturbed of your willing to give credence to the unproven and unfoundedly assumed presumption that CO2, CH4, and any other gasses that the extremist left hates are upon their dictum alone the mythical GREENHOUSE GASSES as they define them to be.

I ask you not to buy into their argument without the proof that they have never had.
They have always had conjecture, lies and hysteria and even a low percentage of consensus ( as if that means anything ).
But they have NEVER had proof of their mythical GREENHOUSE EFFECT ( as defined by the extremist left ).